2 Samuel 7

1s Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord t had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,2the king said to u Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell v in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells w in a tent."3And Nathan said to the king, x "Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you."

4But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan,5"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord: y Would you build me a house to dwell in?6I have not lived in a house z since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about a in a tent for my dwelling.7In all places where b I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with c any of the judges 1 of Israel, whom I commanded d to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'8Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, e I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.9f And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.10And I will appoint a place for my people Israel g and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place h and be disturbed no more. i And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,11j from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And k I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that l the Lord will make you a house.12m When your days are fulfilled and n you lie down with your fathers, o I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.13p He shall build a house for my name, and q I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.14r I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, s I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,15s but my steadfast love will not depart from him, t as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.16u And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. 2u Your throne shall be established forever.'"17In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

18Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, v "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?19And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. w You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!20And what more can David say to you? x For you know your servant, O Lord God!21Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.22y Therefore you are great, O Lord God. z For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.23a And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name b and doing for them 3 great and awesome things by driving out 4 before your people, whom c you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?24d And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God.25And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.26And your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.27For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.28And now, O Lord God, you are God, and e your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.29Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken, f and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever."

Cross References2 Samuel 7:1 - 29
Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies.
1 Chronicles 17:1 - 27
Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.

Cross ReferencesJoshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:17
In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
2 Samuel 12:1
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

Cross References2 Samuel 5:11
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

Cross ReferencesExodus 26:1
Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Cross References1 Kings 8:17 - 18
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 22:7
David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
1 Chronicles 28:2
Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.
Acts 7:46
Who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

Cross References1 Kings 5:3
You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 8:19
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.
1 Chronicles 22:8
But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.

Cross References1 Kings 8:16
'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'

Cross ReferencesExodus 40:18 - 19
Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars.
Exodus 40:34
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Cross ReferencesLeviticus 26:11 - 12
I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
Deuteronomy 23:14
Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

Cross References1 Chronicles 17:6
In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"

Cross References2 Samuel 5:2
In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'

Cross References1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.
Psalms 78:70
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.

Cross References2 Samuel 5:10
And David became greater and greater, for the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him.
2 Samuel 8:6
Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Samuel 18:14
And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.

Cross ReferencesPsalms 44:2
You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
Psalms 80:8
You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Jeremiah 24:6
I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
Amos 9:15
I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them," says the Lord your God.

Cross References2 Kings 21:8
And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.

Cross ReferencesJudges 2:14 - 16
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
1 Samuel 12:9 - 11
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:1
Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:27
For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
1 Kings 11:38
And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
Exodus 1:21
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
1 Samuel 2:35
And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.

Cross References1 Kings 1:21
Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.
1 Kings 2:10
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

Cross References1 Kings 8:20
Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
Psalms 132:11
The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

Cross References1 Kings 5:5
And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.
1 Kings 6:12
Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kings 8:19
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
1 Chronicles 28:6
He said to me, 'It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:16
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'
Psalms 89:4
I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
Psalms 89:29
I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
Psalms 89:36 - 37
His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.

Cross ReferencesPsalms 89:26 - 27
He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"?

Cross ReferencesPsalms 89:32 - 33
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men.

Cross References1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.
1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
1 Kings 11:13
However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
1 Kings 11:34
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
Psalms 89:36 - 37
His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Luke 1:33
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
Psalms 89:36 - 37
His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Luke 1:33
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

Cross ReferencesGenesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:12 - 13
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17:17
And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O Lord God!

Cross References1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
2 Chronicles 2:5
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

Cross ReferencesExodus 15:11
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is...
Deuteronomy 3:24
O Lord God, you have only begun to show your se...
Psalms 86:8
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, ...
Psalms 89:6
For who in the skies can be compared to the Lor...
Psalms 89:8
O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, ...
Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides m...
Jeremiah 10:6
There is none like you, O Lord ; you are great,...

Cross ReferencesDeuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.
Psalms 147:20
He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the Lord!

Cross ReferencesDeuteronomy 10:21
He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.

Cross ReferencesDeuteronomy 9:26
And I prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Nehemiah 1:10
They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.

Cross References2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Samuel 7:16
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.
2 Samuel 7:26
And your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments.

Cross ReferencesJohn 17:17
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Cross References2 Samuel 22:51
Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Psalms 89:28 - 29
My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.

Notes

2 Samuel 7:1 - 29

Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies.
The king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.
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